Canon PowerShot A70 Digital Camera (Canon-8400A001)

Canon PowerShot A70

PowerShot A70 Digital Camera (Canon-8400A001) Review, by Tracey Capen July 26, 2003

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• Reviewed by: blackhawksc

  Strengths: Lots of manual controls, decent optical zoom for a relatively low price. Uses standard AA batteries and not custom battery pack.

  Weaknesses: Shooting under bright environments can produce dull photos. Construction is a bit flimsy.

  Overall: Overall a great camera. It's very easy to use in general and photo resolution is excellent. A standard AA battery scheme is also great because if your battery ever fails you won't have to go directly to the manufacturer and pay for an expensive replacement pack. The dial and buttons quickly allows you to adjust shutter speed, flash. OSD menu also includes several languages not usually found on cameras like Japanese and Chinese, in addition to the standard French, Spanish etc.I wasn't particularly impressed by it's night time mode. I had to do manual adjustments and also have a steady hand to actually get a quality night time shot that is not blurry. If you're a point-and-shoot type of user, sometimes the camera will digitally reduce the color saturation of your photos. This means the vibrant colors you expect from a shot will become dull. I had to later edit some photos manually to make them look good on prints. Also my camera is ugly now because the small pieces of plastic that covers the lens when its not in use has fallen off after I carried it around during a trip. Not the most durable product.Overall the pros outweigh the cons.

• Reviewed by: ashishvora

  Strengths: Great Photo Quality, Cheap CF Memory used as compared to other types, pretty decent videos, USB connectivity, Good battry life.

  Weaknesses: None as yet.

  Overall: This was one of the best in its times. Although A95 and others now match this one for price and you get higher MPs. But even then this A70 rocks.

• Reviewed by: theseus20

  Strengths: Takes good pictures. Can use normal "AA" rechargable batteries.

  Weaknesses: It is falling apart! The zoom has fallen off, the camara doesn't always turn on, sometime turns off within 3 seconds of turning it on, and stopped focusing.

  Overall: Camara just started falling apart. Canan wants more for a couple replacable parts then it would cast to buy a new camara. Tech service was not friendly or help full. I would not buy this camara again!

• Reviewed by: LEGEND92

  Strengths: Soild, performer with multiple shooting options and the size of the camera is nice.

  Weaknesses: none that would really become bothersome

  Overall: I got the E18 error message. I have yet to contact canon to find out what it will cost to fix. As of right now I am stuck with a camera that has a lens that wont retract back into the camera. This may be the end of this canon camera!

• Reviewed by: becky1975

  Strengths: the camera takes very clear pictures at first.has alot of features.liked the zoom and video modes.

  Weaknesses: none really.

  Overall: the only reason i was so dissatissfied with this camera is because it froze up three monthes after we had it. sure they fixed it for free after we shipped it to them. and now nine monthes later it froze up again and there is no warrenty left and i have to choose another camera.